BONUS Healing: The Angry Part of Trauma and Wrestling with Ourselves

Join Forrest, Your Favorite Librarian for an impromptu and informal conversation. Consisting of b-roll, new audio clips and personal recordings-- jump into the dialogue with Forrest.

From exploring Grief and shame, the usage of both and how they effect expressions of sexuality and identity to rediscovering self in new environments. Forrest doesn't stop there, the conversation continues with paired personal stories and memories.

From defining and understanding spiritual trauma and abuse, respectability politics and honoring other's and their needs over self, this episode is more than a BONUS. With Forrest, explore what healing and self-identification looks like in the American South and Queer spaces, and also as a Queer person of color.

Forrest also discusses self-repression and the effects of voluntarily erasing self in an effort to be tolerated and ultimately accepted. From how not to use trauma and shame to how to copy with trauma and shame--- examine Forrest's suggested tools and tips, and recommend resources.

Episode's Suggested Books
1. "This (Boi)want Body: Narratives of a Queer Black Boi & the Waters that Carry Them" by Bobbi Kindred
2. "In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980's" by Margaret Galvan
3. "Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement" by Jennifer Patterson 

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